My pregnancy progressed with characteristic morning sickness. We did not want to announce our pregnancy until we were past the first trimester. After an exciting announcement like a new baby, it is so difficult to announce a miscarriage. It was not easy to hide when I threw up several times a day. My husband finally…
I discovered I was pregnant just before my 40th birthday. Whew! Just before the deadline I had imposed upon myself. A few weeks into the pregnancy I started the characteristic bleeding that I had experienced with all of my miscarriages, as well as with my younger daughter. We were headed off on a cruise to…
Two years ago I gave up on a little dream. I gave up on having a third child. I was not desperate to have another baby. I was content to be the mother of my two wonderful daughters, if that was what the Lord had planned for me. But I had always thought I would…
I want to talk about what no one wants to talk about: miscarriage. As women we feel many different things when we experience miscarriage: disappointment, feeling like a failure, feeling physically broken, guilt because we are afraid we did something to cause it, relief over not having to endure a difficult pregnancy, then guilt over…
